Sarah Booth Delaney is a southern belle and fallen daddy's girl who has no job or husband and north of thirty, and at the start of the series, finds herself about to lose the family's plantation located in the fictional town of Zinnia, Mississippi. On the plantation is the ghost of her great-great grandmother's nanny, Jitty, she is the one who gave Sarah the idea to kidnap the dog of her friend. Becoming a private investigator is what winds up saving the family plantation.
"Them Bones" by Carolyn Haines, the first book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, was released in 1999, and Haines' debut novel. Southern lady Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to solve a murder. She has to figure out if Hamilton Garrett V and his sibling killed their mother and father two decades ago or not. Sarah, in a moment of desperation to make some quick money, ransoms her friend's valuable dog to pay the mortgage on the property. It is this friend that also asks her to look into the murder. Through no fault of her own, she becomes a suspect of another murder that pops up, after she starts digging into what happened to Hamilton's parents. He is a love interest …show more content…
A dinner party thrown by Lawrence Ambrose, a man who made a name for himself writing southern letters, is trying to make a comeback, with the help of an ex-model to write a tell-all with him. He is so sure that it will be huge he tells his dinner guests that the book will shed light on all the dirtiest and darkest secrets the town of Zinnia. All the guests have secrets and want to keep them hidden. The next morning, the biography's gone and there is a corpse. Sarah Booth takes the case to try to find out what happened; she has to be careful before she joins the dead person. Her love life is still on rocky ground, the man she is with runs hot and cold. At one moment giving her a dog and the next, he's shutting her
"Them Bones" by Carolyn Haines, the first book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, was released in 1999, and Haines' debut novel. Southern lady Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to solve a murder. She has to figure out if Hamilton Garrett V and his sibling killed their mother and father two decades ago or not. Sarah, in a moment of desperation to make some quick money, ransoms her friend's valuable dog to pay the mortgage on the property. It is this friend that also asks her to look into the murder. Through no fault of her own, she becomes a suspect of another murder that pops up, after she starts digging into what happened to Hamilton's parents. He is a love interest …show more content…
A dinner party thrown by Lawrence Ambrose, a man who made a name for himself writing southern letters, is trying to make a comeback, with the help of an ex-model to write a tell-all with him. He is so sure that it will be huge he tells his dinner guests that the book will shed light on all the dirtiest and darkest secrets the town of Zinnia. All the guests have secrets and want to keep them hidden. The next morning, the biography's gone and there is a corpse. Sarah Booth takes the case to try to find out what happened; she has to be careful before she joins the dead person. Her love life is still on rocky ground, the man she is with runs hot and cold. At one moment giving her a dog and the next, he's shutting her